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Read all about it: It’s Phonebook February in Cohoes
Students in Cohoes are recycling paper at a rapid rate and are asking families and community members to join the effort by dropping off phone books for recycling as part of Phonebook February. Abram Lansing’s “Green Team” has spearheaded the phonebook recycling effort, part of a larger paper recycling drive happening districtwide.
Did you know that every year, 19 million trees are cut down to print phone books? The students in Jeffery Huneau’s class are well aware of that fact, as well as hundreds of others involving energy, recycling and conservation. Earlier this month, the class launched its first newsletter, called The Green Gossip, a monthly report the students will use to: update the community on the schools’ recycling efforts; offer tips on energy efficiency and recycling; and inform the school community of upcoming “Green Events.”
During “Phonebook February,” the first of many Green Events, Cohoes community members can recycle phone books by dropping them off at one of the district's elementary schools. The unused phone books are being collected as part of the district's effort to recycle paper. Students from each school collect paper and store it in special recylcling bins. An outside vendor, T.A. Predel & Co., Inc., purchases the school district’s recycled paper on a per pound basis.
Coming in March from the Green Team at Abram Lansing is “Magazine March.”
Read the first issue of The Green Gossip here.
